Professor Rowan (boss)

Professor Rowan
Location		Jubilife Trainers School
Cooldown time		12 days
Dates active		2019—present
Basic requirements
Be Sinnoh Champion
Rewards Pokémon (subsumptive of SInnoh's subset of starter Pokémon) Type-enhancing held items

" Let's see if you are as experienced as you think!"

—Professor Rowan

The Professor Rowan boss is the boss-NPC incarnation of Professor Rowan—the preeminent Pokémon professor of the Sinnoh region. He homologizes to Professor Oak, Professor Elm and Professor Birch of the Kanto, Johto and Hoenn regions, respectively, as Sinnoh's professorial boss NPC.

Because of his byjob as a distributor starter Pokémon, his trove of prizes include Sinnohs's own subset of starter Pokémon, making him a potentially prolific alternative to hunting for the starter Pokémon in the wild.

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Boss rework 2019

Rowan was part of the Boss rework in 2019 and was updated at the 16th September 2019. The boss rework was issued and is still ongoing to improve the boss NPC's in general. All reworked bosses are coded in Python and not in Xanascript anymore, which gives new opportunities. Reworked bosses can now have held items as well. One of the biggest benefits is, that the Python script sees when if the server crashed in order to not count a lose in case the player fought against the boss while the server crashed. In such a case the player can simply re-fight the boss.

The boss rework implies a challenge for players on any experience level who do enjoy doing bosses because of the three difficulty level every not story related boss has, which ensures that bosses are challengable for newer players and also be a chellange for those who have a high Pokémon knowledge. Boss teams are decisively reworked and only contain level 100 Pokémon. EVs and hold items do vary among other things - also depending on the difficulty level.

• Easy: bosses have no EVs and no hold items; as well as a weakened moveset. Consecutive win rewards are also not available.
• Medium: bosses have 252 EVs in each stat and hold items.
• Hard: bosses have 400 EVs in each stat and hold items. Furthermore, the player is not allowed to use in-battle items such as Revives.

Challenging Professor Rowan

Professor Oak can be found in the upper-rightmost corner in Jubilife Trainers School.

Interacting with him will automatically initiate a battle contingent that you have completed the Sinnoh League. If you have previously battled him, it will be a 12-day cooldown time to rechallenge him. In case you should have a playing time under 100 hours, Oak will give you a warning if you are really sure to fight him.

Lineup

Medium/Hard

Torterra,Empoleon,Infernape,Staraptor,Gliscor,Manaphy

Professor Rowan's Lineup
Emboldened moves avail from a STAB bonus when deployed by that Pokémon. Italicized moves are functionally broken; see their individualized pages for more information.